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Monday, 12 May 2014

what a find!

A little while ago I purchased this quilt at a patchwork show. It had no binding on it, no batting, was somewhat marked in places on the back, but I fell in love with it! It is a well constructed queen size hexagon quilt, hand pieced, using 30,40, 50's fabrics.
On the back there is what looks something like flanelette, it's soft & but thin. There is an occasional knot randomly placed across the top, like tying I guess to join the flanelette to the top. There are no worn areas on the top, no unravelling stitches, no holes. All I have done so far is to add the binding.
All I know about it is that it was purchased previously in an antique shop 15yrs or more ago ... but where? I don't know! This is probably the oldest quilt I have had contact with! I am now wondering about washing it, but am very unsure how to go about this. Any suggestions would be really appreciated!

4 comments:

ooooo what a teasure! I love Hexi quilts. I am a terror for putting quilts in the washing machine. When I found my old one that I wrote about recently it was very grubby. I put it in the machine with liquid laundry detergent and washed it with a cold gentle wash. It came out lovely. It had quite a bit of wear and tear on it but I managed to pull out and replace all the damaged pieces. I cant resist a quilt restoration.Linda

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Hi I'm Linda, and I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I am a mother of two grown up children & granny to three now! I've been making quilts on & off for a few years, I particularly enjoy making colourful scrappy quilts. I am sharing bits and bobs of my quilty journey here.